VLVL Sentences

[Steve Maas]

The excerpt actually reads: “[…] the no-eye-contact eyes, […]” (p.139), not 
“lenses.” I took this to mean that he won’t meet her eyes. Does the book 
actually say somewhere that he’s wearing shades?

I guess the luminous shade and the tightly rationed smile factor into her 
decision that on balance she likes and/or trusts him. To each her or his 
own. I wonder, though, about those “other, less hopeful arrangements.”

Steve Maas

jbor:
>Convoluted though it is, I can make sense of that second
>sentence now. The "luminous shade" (wha?) of Ralph's
>skin made up for the "wrong-length sideburns", and the fact
>that he didn't smile much similarly compensated for the dark
>glasses he was wearing. But why do these characteristics
>(his tan and his serious expression), which apparently make
>him look less stupid in DL's eyes, influence her decision to
>agree to "the venture"?

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